Device for securing name-plates and the like.



F, H. AULD.

DEVICE FOR SECURING NAME PLATES AND THE LIKE. APPLsCATloN FILED SEPT. x5, |911.

1,274,497. Patented Aug. (i, 1918.

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FREDERICK IOWARD AULD, 0F CULUMBUS, OHIO.

DEVICE FOB, SECURING NAME-PLATES .AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 6, 1918.

Application filed September 15, 1917. Serial No. 191,554.

To ZJ uf/Lomi t may romero lie it known that I, l `unnninox Howaun Alien, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county ofi Franklin and State of'Ohio, have inventedia certain new and useful Improvement in Devices for Securing Name- Plates and the like,v ot' which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide improved means whereby a name plate or other object can be Secured with great firmness to another body and at the same time in such a manner as to prevent leakage of oi] or other liquids The invention is especially applicable to the hub caps of automobile wheels, said raps usually heal-img the name or other insignia identifying the make of the automobile.

he invention is embodied in the example shown in the accompanying drawing and particularly set forth and claimed in the followin spccitioation.

In saiii drawing- Figure 1 is an axial set-tional view of a V'lub cap showimgr the name plate equipped with the securingr means applied to an orifice in the end of the huh cap and ready to be pressed into secured position.

Fig. 2 shows the securing means pressed into secured position. Y

Fig. 3 is a plan view looking' at the inner end of the, huh cap.

n the views designates; thtI hub cap which is provided at its outer end with a circular orifice of a diameter suitable to just about. receive theI scouring means. The character 6 designates the name plate which, in includes a plain bark piero or disk 7 of sheet metal and a front: eororing piece 8 of sheet, metal spun around the edge, of the piece 7. The. front eovering \r piece 8 has pressed, engraved or otherwise put upon it thc name, insignia or ornamentation desired,

The character 9 designates a shallow eup shaped member which is of thin sheet metal and ot as nearly as praetieal the, diameter, externally, of the. oriee in the, end of the hub. 'lhe depth of the cup shaped pieee is made somewhat great-er than the thickness oi4 the metal of the end of the hub cap. ld designates an expanding member Afor the cup shaped member. This member 10 is of frusto-conieal forni and of sheet metal pret'- enably of heavier gage than the member El. The member it) is spot-welded lo thel bottom of the eu-p shaped member t) and the member 9 is spot-welded to the mem'ber 7 preferably before the covering piece S 4is applied to the disk T so as not to distigure said covering piece 8.

The name plate thus prepared is applied to thc outer end of the huh. the fasteningmeans enterinls,r the orifice, thereof as shown in Fig. 1. The edge of the cup shaped memer is then bent outward over the, margin of the orifice at the inner side of' the hub rap, the frusto-eonieal expanding member l() being preferably in the same operation, pressed inward'so as to forcey the wall of the eup shaped member against the wall oi the orice all around. The name plate is thus rendered leak proof and seeured in place by the. entita-ration of the, cup shaped member and the expanding member. In Fig. l a tool or die designated 11 is shown forturning over the odge of the cup shaped member and pressing the expanding member inward. Inv4 practice the name plate and hu-b cap are of course supported upon a suitable bloekor anvil (not shown) while pressure is applied to ther tool 11 to perform the deseribed operation. v

The forms, dimensions and applieationof the parts can be varied without departing' from the gist ot' the invention as rlaimed.

What l rlaim is:

l. Means for securing: a name plateto another object ha vingr an opening consisting in the combination with the name, plate, of a eup shaped member to tit in the openimgr and an expmlding member to press the annular Wall of the eup shaped memlxr against the. wall of the opening'. i

2. Means lor seouring a nameplate, to another object ha ving` an opening ronsisl-ing in .the combination. with the name plate ol a eup shapml member to lit in the opening, said up shaped member beiner ot' greater depth than the depth of said opening and adapted to'huve its` edge bent over the Inargin of the o|mniu,,r and an expanding;Ir member within the eup shaped member to press the annular wall of the eup shaped member against the,` wall of said opeuin'r.

FREDERICK HOWARD RUM). 

